Chaotic Weather

The current cold snap is quite awesome, the country is coming to a stand still and I couldn't be happier. A little bit of chaos is always exciting and this is no exception. All our secondary roads are closed and the primary roads are that much better. A run on hard salt has meant that there is not going to be much improvement on those roads. Many people have no access to running water or heating becasue the water in their pipes has frozen. One woman was even trapped in her house for 10 days having prepared properly though had enough food to cope with this weather.
So what is being done about this? Absolutely nothing apparently, yet another emergency that is caught up in the infinite bureaucracy that seems to guide our politicians. The grit supplies are running out quite fast as one would expect considering this is a one in 10 year event (our second in 3 months). The planning for extreme weather has been weighed, measured and found wanting. The general consensus is that we are in the front line of global warming but have we taken any steps to address this? Not a one.
What can be done I hear you ask, well there is one company who has over 100,000 tonnes of grit in the country, that is enough for this winter and another one after it. What is the problem? They are asking for up to 3 times the international market price. This is an emergency so I would FORCE the proprietor to drop his prices. He is going o be wholesaling his stock its not like he will not get a nice profit from it but no he must hold the country to ransom and make us get grit and salt from Sweden taking up to 3 weeks.
There is also the possibility of going to some our pharmaceutical companies who have many different sugar waste products which can actually be more effective at temperatures under 3 degrees Celsius. This can be used in combination to sand, salt and grit to bump our supplies to help us. Unfortunately our politicians do not look for scientific solutions or innovations which is sad, we have so many chemists and physicists in this country that are going to state funded universities that are not being asked to help the state.
I hear now as I write this that the army is being called in to help with this and its about time. Our army is one of the best trained in emergency situations which can be seen from their response during the floods where again they were called in too late by a bumbling government who have the worst "wait and see" attitude during these hard times.